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QXL SPICE X.Org Driver Supports New Features

10-21-2013, 01:40 AM

Phoronix: QXL SPICE X.Org Driver Supports New Features

Red Hat's Alon Levy announced on Sunday the xf86-video-qxl 0.1.1 driver release, which is the X.org DDX driver for use with Red Hat's SPICE protocol with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and SPICE KVM/QEMU. This new X.Org display driver release supports several new features...

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Does anyone know if this makes it feature complete against the vmware stack?

Are you asking whether the qxl DDX is comparable with the vmware DDX, or are you asking whether the two stacks are comparable? If the later, then no -- there is no gallium driver yet on the KVM/QEMU side .... vmware, on the other hand, has a complete stack (i.e. they have their gallium3d vmwgfx driver).

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Are you asking whether the qxl DDX is comparable with the vmware DDX, or are you asking whether the two stacks are comparable? If the later, then no -- there is no gallium driver yet on the KVM/QEMU side .... vmware, on the other hand, has a complete stack (i.e. they have their gallium3d vmwgfx driver).